A Texas city has been deemed the most affordable U.S British kitchen retailer Magnet Kitchens compiled a list of the 190 most populated cities in the EU, the U.S., Australia and Canada and ranked the best cities for hosting a summer barbecue based on affordability. The retailer used online database Numbeo to determine the average prices of food average sunshine hours and noise curfew times Where are the best places in the world to host a barbecue, and which days are ideal for such a gathering? Here's what the data shows The average cost of food for such an event is $55.72 It also has the cheapest average price in the country for a bottle of wine The West Texas city also has a reasonable average price for beer Here's how Texas cities lined up with others in the U.S (prices converted from sterling pound to USD as of Jan People are also reading: Three Austin barbecue joints earned Michelin stars. Franklin Barbecue awarded Bib Gourmand Houston and Fort Worth were among the 10 U.S TexasLIST: 10 most expensive US cities for a bottle of beerAt $3.20 the most expensive bottle of beer in the country can be found in Atlanta Spain doesn't mess around when it comes to barbecue The largest country in Southern Europe claimed 12 of the 20 most affordable cities for a barbecue in a worldwide ranking — as well as each of the top five LIST: 20 least affordable cities for a barbecue (global)On the other side of the spectrum cities were among the most expensive for a barbecue But fear not — Australia had the highest prices worldwide claiming 12 of the top 20 most expensive cities worldwide Despite having one city on the list of top 20 most affordable Canada also had two cities on the inverse list Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon The best of Time Out straight to your inbox We help you navigate a myriad of possibilities Sign up for our newsletter for the best of the city By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news Sign up for our email to enjoy your city without spending a thing (as well as some options when you’re feeling flush) By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Worldwide Loads of us love a good bev – particularly in these European countries, which have ranked as the highest alcohol consumers – but doesn’t that cool, crisp beer taste all the better when it hasn’t set you back the best part of a tenner Of course it does, and that’s why it’s handy to know the cheapest places to buy it. A study by Magnet Kitchens evaluated 190 cities from across the world to find the cheapest bottles of beer According to the study, Taranto, a coastal city in southern Italy with a bottle costing a measly 65p (77 cents) In joint second place it was three German towns: Wuppertal, Bochum and Bochum-Hordel, where a bottle sets you back as little as 71p (84 cents) and in third place it was Zaragoza, a vibrant city in northeastern Spain where a beer costs around 72p (85 cents). this list is completely dominated by Spain and Germany with the former claiming 12 spots in the top 20 and the latter copping 4 (but those are all in the top 10) now you know which countries are the safest bet for a budget beer – check out the destinations below. 8. Alicante and Gijon 10. Bilbao To read more about the study, you can do so right here. Did you see that this city has just been named the best in Europe for nightlife Plus: Why have the Olympic rings become so controversial? 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Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! tiktok facebook twitter youtube About us Contact us the German husband and wife duo’s images continue to ask questions about beauty By: Osman Can Yerebakan Modernism is a polarizing subject today: once rebellious and liberating its regimented silhouettes resonate for many as commanding statures of exhausted utilitarianism and industrialist ideals German husband and wife photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher’s serial images of commercial structures as well as homes of 20th century Europe and America open a new door for these concrete and metal constructions the structures are occasionally otherworldly—even monstrous—or sometimes humanoid It is the couple’s lens that humanizes the plain industrial architecture that may in fact be difficult to see with emotion: Rusting cranes and mammoth water towers stand silent and grandiose freed of function and allowed to become sculptural The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new namesake exhibition encapsulates Bernd and Hilla Becher’s fascination for their subject matter and their urge to photograph what life provided them Rather than lush Alpine hills or curvaceous bodies the objects of this drive were steel and concrete emblems of a turning point in western history Dilapidated by two world wars and fueled by an industrialist zeal the landscape surrounding the couple was far from attractive to most photographers A palatable kind of beauty did not make it into their frame—rather they peeled the outer layers of looking to recognize the veiled beauty of these overlooked structures The Bechers’ images might require more patience to internalize than those by their contemporaries which opens with a 1983-dated singular image of a bulbous water tower from Verviers each black and white series’ grid formation yields their own architectural rhythms enveloping the viewer with a hallucinating experience of geometry the photographs are micro pods of Modernist architectural forms orchestrated into macro juxtapositions of Minimalist rhythm within their grid compositions In the context of a large retrospective in which adjacent walls hold variations of these grids the work feels Conceptualist and of the present. The late couple’s first American retrospective since 1974 the expansive show includes over 200 of their artworks and one work each from their close friends Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt who were similarly committed to revealing geometry through repetition Six categories break down the couple’s five-decade career such as Framework Houses which assumes the triangular form of mid-century German housing format or Zeche Concordia dedicated to images of a coal mine in northwestern Germany which the couple continued to photograph for three years in the late 1960s Typologies embody their grand oeuvre of industrialist architecture photography which led them to win the Golden Lion at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990 the prestigious award was not handed to the artists who were also professors at the Dusseldorf School of Photography but rather for their contribution to sculpture The Bechers used a large-format view camera and shot their subjects during cloudy days to avoid extreme shadows on the facades A fifteen-frame gelatin silver print series shows water tanks perched on New York rooftops symbols of American urbanism and even popular culture The other fifteen images in Grain Elevators (United States and France) (1982-2002) are united not in their geography but rather in their cylindrical form—all erected with a rounded heft unexpectedly bridging architecture with sculpture Bernd and Hilla Becher is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through November 6 Would you like to comment on this article? 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